Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Set in the future in what was North
America now called Panem, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are the
chosen tributes of District 12 to compete in The Hunger Games, the
reason for the games is to remind the people from the twelve
districts that the rebellion that they once tried was a huge failure
and to also show them that the Capitol are in charge and another
rebellion will be pointless because the rebels will lose. The Hunger Games consist of 24 contestants
fighting to the death and the games only end when there is a lone
victor.

The way the film was filmed makes
the audience feel Katniss’ feelings such as in the scene where
Katniss gets stung by the tracker jackers, she then starts hallucinating and the audience see
what Katniss is seeing, also Jenifer’s acting was very good she was
believable and overall a very good choice for Katniss, the action
scenes were very good to keep the audience hooked and they were very
well shot as well, the film also stayed very true to the book making
only a few minor changes.

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

“At
this rate, I’ll be a white cat by the morning” is said by Jiji
(Sakuma)
Kiki’s (Takayama)
cat, they have just moved into the bakery and their room is a little
dirty so Jiji freaks out. The films storyline did very well to keep
the audience’s attention throughout the film.

Kiki is only 13 years old and she is
leaving home, all witches her age have to leave their homes and spend
a year away from their families, so they can train and discover their
talents. She decides that she wants to leave on the full moon,
unfortunately for her parents that night is only a few hours away.
Kiki soon realises that the world is not full of nice people and
finds it hard to settle into the town which she loves the look of,
while being in the town only 5 minutes she nearly causes a car crash
and a policeman starts talking to her about not flying through the
town on her broom, then a woman screams “thief” and the police
officer runs off, Kiki then makes a run for it and a boy rides beside
her on his bike and he was the one imitating a woman’s voice
screaming thief, Kiki takes a sudden dislike to this boy and flies
away from him. Kiki then runs into a heavily pregnant woman who is
trying to call one her customers back because she forgot her Childs
dummy, Kiki takes the dummy from the shop owner and flies down to the
woman who misplaced the dummy and she hands the dummy over to the
woman. When Kiki returns to the shop the pregnant woman asks Kiki if
she has anywhere to live and offers Kiki her spare room to stay in.
Kiki decides that she wants to open her own business and chooses to
do deliveries; Kiki makes lots of friends, loses her powers and saves
a citizen.

I said that “The films
storyline did very well to keep the audience’s attention throughout
the film.” Kiki gets into trouble in her first delivery;
she meets new people and also works hard to make money.

Verdict

The voice acting was done very well,
the subtitles were easy to read and the animation was very good for
the time period.

Awkward. is a 12 part series
following Jenna Hamilton (Ashley
Rickards) a unpopular girl who can’t seem to stay
out of the spot light since her recent accident which looked a lot
like a suicide attempt and as much as she tried to explain no one
believed her, Jenna receives a nasty letter telling her what she
needs to do to become popular and attractive, Jenna and her friends
Tamara (Jillian Rose Reed) and Ming (Jessica Lu) suspect many people
of writing the letter, Jenna is caught in a love triangle with Matty
(Beau Mirchoff) who has her heart but doesn’t want to be seen in
public with her and Jake(Brett Davern) who loves Jenna for who she is
and isn’t worried to be seen with her or make a fool of himself.

The series is very funny; with an
eclectic group of characters there is bound to be someone you can
relate to, the storyline was brilliantly presented and kept the
audience wanting more, overall the TV series is very good and appeals
to a large amount of people.